Playing his detective hero with a deep, deep sorrow, Ford seemed to load all our sins of ambition and self-destruction on his stalwart shoulders.īy contrast, Gosling portrays K as what he is - a confused robot - so our emotional engagement with him remains thin by comparison. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” Scott fashioned a brooding elegy for the fall of man and the rise of his cybernetic successor. I watched the original “Blade Runner” earlier this week (the “Final Cut” mentioned above) and was struck both by how well the film holds up and how plotless it is - how, in adapting Philip K.
There’s also a prostitute (Mackenzie Davis of “Halt and Catch Fire”) with a heart of who-knows-what, and K’s personal digital assistant, Joi (Ana de Armas), who’s more or less Scarlett Johansson from “Her” with girl-next-door eyes and a stripper’s body.Īnd, yes, there’s lonesome Harrison Ford, grumpily and gamely reprising his role as Deckard from the first film. (Do androids dream in electric flashbacks?) The villain noted above, a prim, unstoppable replicant named Luv (Hoeks), has a lethal roundhouse kick and no scruples about getting what she wants. K develops a personal interest in getting to the bottom of the matter, as is made (somewhat) clear from memories that may or may not have been implanted. The Big Plot Thing I’m not supposed to tell you about arouses the curiosity of a number of parties in this dying husk of a future. In a scene that consciously echoes the opening of the original “Blade Runner,” K interviews a hulking farmer (Dave Bautista) who may or may not be a renegade Nexus 8 replicant, all of whom are allowed only to work on off-world colonies. In fact, our hero is one: LAPD officer KB36-3.7 (Ryan Gosling), his name shortened to the not-at-all Kafkaesque “K” by his grim-lipped boss (Robin Wright). The human-like droids known as replicants, now purged of their homicidal tendencies, are more plentiful than ever.
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